January 22 is the Spring Festival. Chinese people from all provinces reunite with their families on that day. The Spring Festival is also the most lively and grand festival in China, so the Chinese people will attach great importance to it. Foreign buyers in this range should purchase know what?

Factories

Most of China’s packaging factories are concentrated in two provinces of Zhejiang and Guangzhou. The factory holidays are usually very early, because most of the workers are from other provinces in China. When the Spring Festival comes, they will go home two weeks before the holiday. With the outbreak of the epidemic, many workers experienced the first round of infections. The outbreak happened around the end of December and the beginning of January, so everyone rested for another week, and some factories took the annual leave directly. The holiday of most packaging factories ends on January 28, so foreign buyers should pay attention to the half-month holiday of Chinese factories so as not to affect the delivery time.

Printing factories, such as factories specializing in white ink or hot stamping, have a holiday earlier than packaging factories, starting in early January, and returning to work after the Lantern Festival, around February 6.

Freight Forwarder

For transportation issues, international transportation generally does not stop at this time, but most freight forwarders in China have a holiday around January 17, and the cut-off time for shipping to the United States is around January 15. Shipments to Saudi Arabia are cut off before January 12. In addition, China’s domestic logistics will be suspended on January 10, while express delivery will not stop, but the price will be a little more expensive than logistics. As the Spring Festival approaches, the volume of domestic transactions in China will increase, and express delivery may be at risk of being blocked. Except for remote areas in China, such as Xinjiang and Tibet, it usually arrives within 3 days. The freight forwarders will start working on January 28.

Order Scheduling

During the holiday period, the salesmen of various factories will not stop taking orders. As the purchasing season approaches in March, there will still be a large number of buyers purchasing in bulk or sample orders during this period. Each factory will schedule according to the order time or the old customer’s order, so if buyers don’t mind the delivery time around mid-February, they should place orders during the Chinese New Year holiday to avoid production delays. And thus affecting the delivery time.